Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...everyone knows, these two bills fought each other to death. The Administration, being convinced that the McNary-Haugen bill was radical & dangerous, fought it to the last ditch where President Coolidge killed it with his veto, last winter (TIME, March...
...obvious, but forgiving, reference to the President's veto of the McNary-Haugen bill was found in a poem of welcome printed in the Rapid City Journal: We want you to know that we understand What you did you thought...
...smiling but diffident. Twice before he had been elected a bishop but never yet been one. Election by the House of Bishops required ratification by a majority of all the members. In 1912, Dr. Silver was elected bishop coadjutor of Kansas only to have the whole House later veto the title, 50 to 48, because Dr. Silver is a divorced man, reputedly the only divorce ever elected Episcopal bishop. When elected coadjutor of Texas later, Dr. Silver declined sooner than risk another rebuff...
Iowa. The legislature of Iowa, forgiving the presidential veto of the McNary-Haugen farm bill (TIME, March 7), formally placed at the President's disposal "all the good things that do distinctly exist in the Hawkeye State." One specific good thing was the Franklin Floete estate "The Highlands." Inducements: 35 acres, fully fenced for privacy; 1,700 feet above sea-level (cool, bracing). Location: On Lake Okoboji, northern Iowa...
President Coolidge's veto message, some 3,000 words in length, frowned on the plebiscite on the grounds that its yes-or-no method would be unconvincing and unfair; that native discussion of independence is untimely; that the little brown men still need the economic and military protection of Big Brother...